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Merge [encoder] → [video-encoding]
Questions currently tagged under encoder (x8) all are about video-encoding, and therefore should be merged.
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Merge [tag:windows-nt] → [tag:windows]
Microsoft no longer produces 9x versions of Windows, and I’ve seen lots of questions tagged windows that apply to NT-based versions (2000, XP, Vista), so the windows-nt tag seems a bit redundant. I ...
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Retag windows-8 as windows-8-preview
As of now, Windows 8 is not out, and as such, all questions with tag windows-8 really relate to the preview, and should be retagged as such to windows-8-preview
This is in line with implementing the ...
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The silent tag… dismember and burninate?
The silent tag is used in at least two different contexts , to do with silent-installs and silent-cooling - could we get rid of the silent tag, and replace them with seperate, more accurate tags?
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Get rid of the [annoyances] tag
I was surprised to see that we have a tag called annoyances (97 questions). Really?
Burninate it, fast! Trogdor, I summon you!
It should be obvious that this is a useless meta-tag, that adds no ...
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Retag request X and x11
Please merge tags x, x11 and xorg See Daniel Beck’s comment. They seem to refer to the same thing.
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Merge tags [802.11] and [wireless-networking]
Merge tags 802.11 and wireless-networking.
Considering wireless-networking has wifi as a synonym …
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Remove the [tweaks] tag
The tag tweaks (x60) is very broad and does not really serve any good purpose.
It never adds value to any given tag combination, since you mostly want to "tweak" a certain thing – and we already ...
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Merge [video-conversion] → [video-converter]
video-conversion (x13) needs to be merged into → video-converter (x94), and a synonym needs to be created.
I would actually propose to do it the other way round, focusing on the "conversion" ...
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Merge the various retrocomputing tags
retro 8 questions
legacy 25 questions
vintage 24 questions
I would suggest for these a common tag retrocomputing.
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Burninate or disambiguiate the [data] tag
Looking through data (x70), there's a lot of ambiguity:
data transmission
data encryption
data recovery
data saving
data in Excel
data editing
So, unless somebody wants to retag these manually, ...
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Is there a way to block the recreation of the “bug” tag on the main site?
I've been editing out the bug tag from threads on the main site because I've noticed that there were just a few questions tagged with it and that it doesn't improve the post in any way that can't be ...
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Merge [radeon] into [ati-radeon]
radeon (x13) should be merged into ati-radeon (x94). It should also be a synonym of the latter.
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Company tag necromancy: The zombie apocalypse!
Just when we though we finally got rid of them all they appear to have been resurrected.
adobe x 200
alienware x 9
amd x 136
apple x 29
asrock x 8
asus x 28
ati x 170
belkin x 39
brother x 15
buffalo ...
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Burninate error, errors, fatal error [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What could we do with the [error] tag?
I know this has been brought up already (the error tag anyway), but it has still not been acted on, so I thought I would bring it ...
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Merge the tag “test” with the tag “testing”
It seems that test and testing should be set as synonyms.
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Merge [vaio] into [sony-vaio]
vaio (x11) should be merged into sony-vaio (x93) and be made a synonym thereof.
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The [xps] tag… What is it intended to refer to?
I just noticed that the xps tag seems to refer to two different things: the Dell computer series, and the .xps file type. Which was it intended to refer to, and if one, should the tag be removed from ...
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What’s up with the volume tag? [closed]
The volume tag is a mixup of partitioning questions and audio questions.
Could someone sort it out? (FYI it's the same mistake done by Polish Windows translators: translating "volume manager" like it ...
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Merge [benchmarks] into [benchmarking]
benchmarks (x6) should be merged into benchmarking (x73).
Additionally, there should be a new synonym benchmarking ← benchmarks.
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The [failure] tag, a story of fail?
Please look at the 226 questions under failure.
We are a site for computer problems. Tags such as "error" often don't add any additional value. The same goes for "failure", and it's probably a bit ...
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Retag request: [case] <--> [computer-case]
The tags case and computer-case look like they are duplicates of each others.
Which one should we keep? Or are there any more specific uses to case?
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What could we do with the [error] tag?
Well, we have a tag called error. Its description says:
Please use a more specific tag instead.
Awesome. So what do all these 547 questions have in common? A non-descriptive tag. On Oct. 10, ...
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Merge [external-display] and [external-monitor]
There's
external-display, 121 questions
external-monitor, 13 questions
As the two are obviously synonyms, and the first one is much more widely used, I suggest to:
Merge external-display and ...
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Can `ui` tag be merged with `user-interface`?
There are two tags which have the same meaning:
ui (15 questions),
user-interface (89 questions).
I imagine that ui may be removed, and the 15 questions retagged with user-interface.
What do you ...
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“mono” tag as in “vs .net” and as in “vs. stereo”
There seem to be two uses of the tag "mono", one for questions related to audio and one for questions related to the Mono framework.
Wouldn't it be better to create a tag "mono-framework" and retag ...
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Can Trogdor please burninate the [must-have] tag
Found another meta tag today must-have
I call upon the mighty and hope that he does what he does best.
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Help clean up the Mac Office tags
Office for Mac uses versions like 2008 and 2011, which makes it different from Office for Windows (2003, 2007, 2010).
The word tag wiki suggests that for Mac there should be:
word-2004
word-2008
...
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Please burninate multiple tag
multiple does no good and brings in multiple! problems.
Please burninate it.
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Merge [search-and-replace] and [find-and-replace]
There are:
find-and-replace (56 tagged)
search-and-replace (17 tagged).
I'd propose to merge them. There's no difference between these two. Then, create a synonym for search-and-replace → ...
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Should we nuke the [calculations], [research] and [malfunction] tags?
These tags have about a dozen questions each.
calculations and research are too general and ambiguous. A few questions tagged research do relate to hardware and software for academia, but even then ...
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Tag merge: [powerline-networking] and [ethernet-over-power]
There are
16 questions tagged powerline-networking
7 with homeplug
6 with ethernet-over-power
powerline-networking and ethernet-over-power should be merged into powerline-networking, I believe – ...
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request for burnination/synonyms
In reference to: Should we blacklist the [technical-support] tag?
Shouldn't we also do the same for customer-support and palm-support?
customer-support is general and also a large percentage of the ...
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Please clean up the USB drive tags?
I'm currently updating the Tag wiki for usb and found some irregularities:
usb-drive x153 – the most commonly used one, also mentions in the excerpt: "especially devices known otherwise as ...
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More for burnination and synonyms
Burnination:
first
function
general
hardware-selection (the two questions with this tag are closed, and hardware combination seems better anyway; might be better to make them synonyms though)
home ...
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Many questions tagged “ide” should be tagged “pata”
Many of the questions currently tagged "ide" should actually be tagged "pata". ide is for integrated development environments, rather than Integrated Drive Electronics.
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Please help clean up the ambiguous Apple iWork Tags
Apple has cleverly named their iWork products "Pages", "Numbers" and "Keynote".
We therefore have three tags:
pages, currently 69 tagged, mostly very ambiguous
keynote, currently 34 tagged, all ...
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Please burninate the [problem] tag
We've had it before and way before that, and also on SO, but the "problem" (which is problem) seems to be reappearing.
Can we please get rid of this meta-tag again?
By the way: There are a few ...
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Putting heat on the cooling/heat/overheat/thermal tag synonyms
The tags cooling, heat, overheat, and thermal seem to be synonymous.
Personally, I would set cooling as the master tag, but I wanted to leave that up for discussion.
For all I know it would be ...
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Tag Nuke Requests [comcast] and [verizon-wireless]
The comcast and verizon-wireless tags are on 16 and 24 questions respectively. As they are typical US-only ISP's could the tags be removed?
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Should we be getting rid of unversioned tags where there clearly is a version?
I don't really see a point in questions being double tagged as brand-product product-version, can we please change these to brand-product-version as this would cover both tags? What do you think?
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Please align the Excel tags
We lost the battle on excel already, so now it's labeled microsoft-excel, but I see there is still confusion with the version specific tags.
microsoft-excel-2002
microsoft-excel-2003 excel-2003
...
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Ambiguous Tag: “atom”
Current status:
The tag atom in its current form is used for both:
The Intel Atom CPU architecture
The Atom standard for XML-based web feeds
Resolution:
There already is an intel-atom tag. I've ...
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Related or synonymous tags: [monitor] and [screen]
The tag screen appears to be a mix of
the same topics as monitor
GNU Screen (which has its own tag gnu-screen)
Should something be done about this? Perhaps separating the two into monitor and ...
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Retag/synonym request: “webbrowser” -> “browser”
It seems like the webbrowser (5 questions) tag needs to be merged into and become synonymous with browser (702 questions) (per the definition of the latter tag). I'd do it manually, but I can't ...
